A few random thoughts about the journey of the ambitious: 1. You're going to lose way more than you win. You’re going to screw up way more than you do right. If you make a legitimate effort to improve and keep going, things will work out. 2. Surround yourself with smarter people than you, as fast as possible. 3. When you screw up… do your best to make it right. 4. When things are good try to remember that you don't know that much and you aren't that good. 5. When things are bad, remember that people have gone through much harder circumstances than you are currently facing and still won big in life. 6. It's a duty to keep going and build a good life because others will win or lose in life from the example you set. 7. Apologize when you're wrong. 8. The less skill you have, the tougher you have to be. 9. Nobody has it figured out … especially the people who pretend to. 10. Keep going. It's worth it. ~ Andy Frisella

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Good morning ladies and gentlemen, Many of you like myself grew up learning to not only to print but also to write in cursive. Writing in cursive was a sign that you were at that level in fact; most reports that we had to write in school, had to be in cursive; not only that, but it had to be legible. For those of us that grew up in this era, you felt that you achieved something when you could write and sign your name. There was nothing more exciting was the ability to buy something or to sign your name to a contract and write your name in cursive. Now days, this is not being taught in the schools anymore, there is no need to have to write in cursive, and for ladies and gentlemen in my era, we even stopped writing in cursive and gone to simply printing. I am curious for those who grew up learning cursive, when was the last time you wrote in cursive? When was the last time you signed your name in cursive? Why is this subject important? Because when we were signing our names writing in cursive it was difficult if not impossible for someone to duplicate you writing. Yes, there were skilled people who were able to on certain people; duplicate their writings, but they were skilled and they could only do certain people. Some of us; if we were going to do any type of duplicate, it was our parents signatures for report cards or permission slips. Even this was not an easy task, because some teachers knew your parents signatures and would catch it the moment you did this. Now days, so many people are having their identities stolen, and people think that it just has to do with people getting ahold of their personal information. Yes this is part of it, but the other factor is that most people now days sign contracts and legal documents with either their initials or a simple “X”. Some will just scribble on the paper and call it their signature. Being in the field that I am in, I have seen so many people loose almost if not everything because someone took their identity and used a scribble to steal from them. You might say well I can just say that I did not sign for that or that is not was not me; but here is the deal, what proof do you have? I have a friend that a man walked into a car dealership; and with his identity and scribble a half signature drove off the lot a brand new car. They finally found the car months later several states away wrecked. Yes , they finally cleared him of this, but the things he had to do to clear his name and prove that it was not him why< because no company is going to take thousands of dollars loss because you say “ that was not me”, it was crazy.